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As Marvel Studios nears the theatrical release of "The Fantastic Four: First Steps," which will serve as the kickoff of the McU's Phase Six (thus closing the book on the franchise's dismal Phase Five), fans can't help but be laser focused on next year's "Avengers: Doomsday." It's not that the quartet's first official appearance in the MCU looks dire; it's just that Marvel, smarting from the franchise-hobbling failures of "The Marvels" and "Captain America: Brave New World," sweatily upstaged their summer 2025 slate last March with a bizarre PR stunt involving a ridiculous number of chairs.

This is not the Marvel Studios of the 2010s, where almost every single movie was a potential billion-dollar event. With the film business still struggling to recover from the Covid-19 stoppage and the (absolutely necessary) union strikes, studios need to go above and beyond to convince potential ticket buyers that their latest theatrical offering is...

Sci-fi films have always been a popular choice for moviegoers. Not only are they great examples of world-building, creativity, and artistry in storytelling, but they contain deeper meanings about society and culture. The best sci-fi films draw upon fundamental parts of society as inspiration for the worlds they create, prompting viewers to examine what makes us human.

Sci-fi films often focus on looking into the future, but several films from the past are still relevant today. In fact, many of sci-fi's modern franchises are influenced and inspired by these classics. For example, Franklin J. Schnaffer's Planet of the Apes and Ridley Scott's Alien have lived on through several modern sequels and adaptations. Films like these have made the recipe for delivering an entertaining yet powerful story that examines issues from beauty standards to human warfare.

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) Directed by Robert Wise

The Day The Earth Stood Still...

When you open an episode of NCIS with Vance locked in his office, covered in blood, and a dead body on his floor, you know things are about to get wild.

NCIS Season 22 Episode 2 throws us straight into a diplomatic meeting with Venezuela that quickly spirals into chaos.

Vance’s covert operation with Diego Rojas, a Venezuelan agent playing both sides, takes a disastrous turn when Rojas collapses and dies in his office.

(Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS)

From that moment on, it’s a mad scramble to cover up the body and solve the mystery before the entire situation blows up in their faces.

Naturally, Torres, McGee, Jess, and even Jimmy — who seems to have joined in just to avoid being the odd man out — get swept into Vance’s off-the-books operation.

Watching them frantically try to handle a dead body without drawing any attention is exactly the kind of...

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz launched Athletes for Harris on Saturday with new endorsements by 15 Pro Football Hall of Famers.

The new campaign effort seeks to mobilize athletes and coaches across the country ahead of the 2024 presidential election in November.

Mel Blount, Emmitt Smith, Kellen Winslow, Andre Tippett, Marv Levy, Alan Page, Drew Pearson, Kenny Houston, Jan Stenerud, Calvin Johnson, Robert Brazile, Willie Roaf, Mike Haynes, Elvin Bethea and Ron Mix are among those backing the Harris-Walz ticket, in addition to the 50 Hbcu football legends who endorsed Harris last week.

Team Harris-Walz looks to leverage sporting events and games to expand its support among voters, with the help of campaign co-chairs who are working to recruit fellow athletes to campaign as well. Those co-chars include Thomas Booker, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Billie Jean King, Steve Kerr, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Doc Rivers, Dawn Staley, Ali Truwit and Chris Paul.

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“I think about you in the morning,” Madi Diaz sings in her latest single, “Hangover.” “I guess that means you’re still important.”

“Hangover” features a churning guitar and steady percussion. The video shows Diaz waking up out of bed and grappling with the loss of a relationship — much like the bulk of her recent record, History of a Feeling.

“I wrote ‘Hangover’ with Jesse Thomas and Drew Pearson when I was still feeling the lagging throws of heartbreak — the waking up in withdrawal, aching, reeling over a person and...

Post-rush hour, the drive from the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills to the Los Angeles Rams’ practice facility in Thousand Oaks, Calif. is a manageable 50 minutes. On Friday, Nov. 15, most of the core broadcast team for NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” — analyst Cris Collinsworth, sideline reporter Michele Tafoya, executive producer Fred Gaudelli, director Drew Esocoff and researcher Andy Freeland — make that trip together in a luxury van, departing the hotel shortly after 11 a.m. Laptops open, Collinsworth and Tafoya are prepping for the interviews they will do with players and Rams head coach Sean McVay after they spend more than an hour observing the team’s practice.

But they and the crew members are also talking about the news of the morning — the suspension that the NFL handed down to Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett for hitting the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mason Rudolph in the head with the quarterback’s own helmet.

Jim Dandy Oct 16, 2019

Superman Smashes the Klan may be set in 1946, but it's incredibly timely today.

We currently live in a world where powerful bigots “fan the flames of a racial fire” instead of stoke violence with their savage racism. Where everything shy of uttering a racial slur in anger is merely “denounced by some as racist” or “racially charged.” So it’s easy to be concerned, when you hear about a new comic project about Superman taking on the Ku Kux Klan, that the story might be so slathered in euphemism as to be rendered entirely inert, even when it’s written by one of the sharpest minds in comics. So when we had a chance to talk with Gene Luen Yang about his new book, Superman Smashes the Klan, it was one of the first things we asked about. “I feel like we do go at it hard,...

Producer Sounwave is used to “throwing paint on the wall” when he works with Kendrick Lamar. However, both he and Lamar were presented with an immense challenge and opportunity when they were asked to write original songs for Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther.”

Knowing that the movie could easily be the biggest film of the year (they were right), they had to find a way to make their songs fit the flow of individual moments, but also consider how their song might sound on the radio.

“When you have a movie like ‘Black Panther’ and you have a lot riding on it and you know how big the movie can be, and they give you scenes and you have to match the intensity of each scene, we’ve never done anything like this,” Sounwave told TheWrap’s Steve Pond. “He kind of left it up to me. He was like,...

Kesha has released the song “Here Comes the Change” as a rallying cry for empowerment that will be featured in the Ruth Bader Ginsburg movie “On the Basis of Sex.”

The song dropped on Wednesday, three months before the Dec. 25 opening of the movie, which stars Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer. The tune was written by Kesha with Drew Pearson and Stephen Wrabel specifically for the film.

The lyrics include the question “Is it a crazy thought/ That if I had a child/ I hope they live to see the day/ When everyone’s equal?”

Jones portrays a young Ginsburg in “On the Basis of Sex” as she teams with her husband to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. The film is premiering five months after Ginsburg’s 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.

Kesha also joined forces...

Kesha is marking the one-year anniversary of Rainbow with a new behind-the-scenes documentary, which premieres on Apple Music on August 10th. In an exclusive clip from the film, Kesha navigates a surreal forest, which serves as a metaphor for the emotions she was going through at the time.

“When I wrote Rainbow, I was in a very dark place. I was alone, and I was scared,” she says in the clip. “And I was in rehab for an eating disorder that had gotten wildly out of control. They said I wasn’t allowed to work.

Sydney, Dec. 28: Grumpy customers browbeating a mall employee could be fined up to 10,200-dollars.

Drew Pearson, a partner at law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, said that there are a lot of workplaces where the public come in and out, like restaurants and shops, asserting that customers probably don't have a an idea of the impact of their behaviour and the fact that it's caught by this law.

If a customer's bullying persists, employees can go to the Federal Court to enforce the order.

Pearson said that the govt. intended the laws to apply broadly to different types of workers, including contractors and work-experience students, but was unclear whether it fully appreciated the extent of their reach.

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Drew Pearson describes the experience of having The Day Hollywood Died premiere at Sydney's Entertainment Quarter as nerve-racking. "You can never exactly know how the audience will respond. Especially with Ronnie S. Riskalla [director] and K.G. Donovan [writer] stretching pretty much every boundary in a small cult film. But it had been in post for quite some time and it was such a relief to see it hit the big screen with a packed audience.

Continuing our support for indie film, we invite you to check out an image as well as the nicely designed movie poster for The Day Hollywood Died, starring Drew Pearson, Maroun Joseph, Nenif David, Bobby Babin, Stephen Multari and Tommy Bradson. Ronnie S. Riskalla directs the action crime drama from the script by K.G. Donovan. The film is on the verge of completion and will find theaters sometime in 2011. About The Day Hollywood Died: "His name isn't important. His story is" The Day Hollywood Died is the debut feature from director Ronnie S. Riskalla and was produced by Rising Pictures. The film follows an unreliable narrator who survived the bloody aftermath of a heist but fails to remember who he is. Thesp Robin Queree lends his powerful voice to the character as the film jumps back and forth between reality and his half-remembered imaginings of what happened...

Continuing our support for indie film, we invite you to check out an image as well as the nicely designed movie poster for The Day Hollywood Died, starring Drew Pearson, Maroun Joseph, Nenif David, Bobby Babin, Stephen Multari and Tommy Bradson. Ronnie S. Riskalla directs the action crime drama from the script by K.G. Donovan. The film is on the verge of completion and will find theaters sometime in 2011. About The Day Hollywood Died: "His name isn't important. His story is" The Day Hollywood Died is the debut feature from director Ronnie S. Riskalla and was produced by Rising Pictures. The film follows an unreliable narrator who survived the bloody aftermath of a heist but fails to remember who he is. Thesp Robin Queree lends his powerful voice to the character as the film jumps back and forth between reality and his half-remembered imaginings of what happened...

Continuing our support for indie film, we invite you to check out an image as well as the nicely designed movie poster for The Day Hollywood Died, starring Drew Pearson, Maroun Joseph, Nenif David, Bobby Babin, Stephen Multari and Tommy Bradson. Ronnie S. Riskalla directs the action crime drama from the script by K.G. Donovan. The film is on the verge of completion and will find theaters sometime in 2011. About The Day Hollywood Died: "His name isn't important. His story is" The Day Hollywood Died is the debut feature from director Ronnie S. Riskalla and was produced by Rising Pictures. The film follows an unreliable narrator who survived the bloody aftermath of a heist but fails to remember who he is. Thesp Robin Queree lends his powerful voice to the character as the film jumps back and forth between reality and his half-remembered imaginings of what happened...

To be honest, I don’t know much about the new feature from Rising Pictures titled The Day Hollywood Died, but it has piqued my interest. Accompanied with an emphatic score from composer Henrique Dib and a thrilling title sequence open, it really makes a great first impression. The film tells the story of one man reliving unreliable memories of a heist to try and uncover who he is, and was penned by K.G. Donovan and directed by debutant Ronnie S. Riskalla.

Here is a bit of information I received from a press release. Hopefully a trailer will be released soon.

“The film is ambitious in both plot and scope, featuring a rumbling score usually reserved for major Hollywood blockbusters and packed full of action, comedy, drama and thrills. Eschewing the stigma that is usually associated with Australian cinema, the high concept narrative blends thrilling conflict with irresistible dialogue and...